A Contemporary Family Home Designed for Luxury and Volume ( House Tour)

North House by mckimm is a contemporary family home, celebrating functionality and grandeur. Despite its large volume and size, North House is a sanctuary, filled with intimate detailing and soul. Designed by Lorenzo Garizio, the site offers a sense of mystery, heightened by the immediate dramatic action of walking across a bridge to access the front door. Journeying over the courtyard below, there is a real sense of depth to the property; this is made more apparent as, in this moment, the eye has the opportunity to span across the length of the home. This feature gives the illusion of an everexpanding site, made more tangible by the attachment of a second property at the rear of the site, which now hosts a tennis court. The heavyset materials used, specifically the coolness of concrete, set the home apart. The client was interested in incorporating arches into the property; mckimm integrated this feature with a twist, whether it be in the form of curves, circles, skylights or cutouts. The mo